22 June 2015

Peter Sunde is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, which means he knows a thing or two about piracy. So when he says that Australia’s site blocking proposal designed to cut down on online piracy won’t work, it’s worth listening to.

7 May 2015

Streaming services are now at a surplus in Australia. Netflix may soon cost more, however, under a reported government plan to apply the GST to the international streaming service set to be announced in the Federal Budget. If Netflix increased in price, would you go back to piracy?

1 May 2015

Privacy and internet freedom advocates have warned this week that the Federal Government’s proposed site blocking Bill designed to crack down on sites like The Pirate Bay could also sweep VPN services up into the legislation, effectively banning their use in Australia. The head of the Australian Copyright Council has appeared in Sydney today to water down those concerns, saying that only certain VPN services should be blocked.

2 February 2015

Popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay is back after it was shut down by Swedish police late last year. While tons of copies popped up after the original disappeared, the swift resurrection of thepiratebay.se makes it clear that it’s damn near impossible to stop determined pirates.

29 December 2014

After The Pirate Bay made its site available for anyone to host with “minimal web knowledge”, the project has become a hit on the popular developer site GitHub, and 372 copies of “The Open Bay” have been created.

20 December 2014

In the wake of a police raid in Sweden that shut down the Pirate Bay as we know it, a number of opportunistic torrent sites have created clones. We’ve said before, Pirate Bay clones are potentially problematic. Nevertheless, Isohunt just launched a tool that makes it confusingly easy to set up your very own open source clone. I tried it;It works.

16 December 2014

After almost a week offline, The Pirate Bay is still down following a raid by Swedish police. One of the crew behind The Pirate Bay has broken radio silence following the raid, saying that they still don’t know if or when The Pirate Bay is going to come back.